A new extraordinary session opened on Thursday at the National Assembly at the request of the President. Four bills and a general policy statement are on the agenda of this session, which therefore puts on hold the motion of censure introduced by the deputies of the camp of former President Macky Sall. Each camp blames the other for blocking government action.
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With our correspondent in Dakar, Lea-Lisa Westerhoff
The opening of this new session, this Thursday, will have lasted only a few minutes: the examination of the bills will begin on Saturday, but in each camp, the positions remain unchanged.
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Moussa Diakhaté, chairman of the law commission, one of the leaders of the majority coalition in Parliament, regrets that the Prime Minister has still not presented his program to the deputies: ” The Prime Minister, he doesn’t respect us. Why this contempt? It is not because we are victorious that we must despise minorities, that is not democracy! The minister is in the process of overstepping these rules and bringing our institutions to their knees! The Senegalese want to know where they want to lead us, where is the problem? »
But for the camp of the president’s party, PASTEF, the blockage in Parliament is inevitable. Amadou Ba: “ This tension was in the normal order of things, because we found a majority that is not favorable to us. We must bring things back into proportion, it is democracy that is expressed, they are trying to sharpen their last weapons, and I think that this whole story will be resolved soon. We are not even six months away, so I think that resolving all the institutional problems within this time frame will allow us to look to the future with much more serenity. »
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Understand dissolve the Assembly of Senegalwhich could happen as early as September 12 according to the government, to organize early legislative elections. In the meantime, in the absence of clearly stated budgetary priorities, the IMF has paused a $250 million disbursement.
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